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She was a skank, but boy she could sing the blues!

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I was fortunate enough to see her twice. Once with Big Brother and the Holding Company (a name I always loved) and then the last time with the Full Tilt Boogy Band.

And get this!

Weekend before last I went to see Big Brother and the Holding Company. Yes, they’re still playing and still living off her work. THAT’S how good Janis Joplin was. Had them all except their original Lead player, and the Janis fill in was of course not up to it, but it was fun.

In fact, they played this song! Their Bass player said remember when we used to talk about acid flash backs? Now all we talk about is acid reflux.

(I am probably one of the very few conservative rock musicians in the world)

I saw BBHC playing a bar in Little Six Points in Atlanta back in ‘88 or ‘89. What I remember of it it was a good show.

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Never saw BBHC or Janis Joplin, but Full Tilt used to regularly play the old Moonshadow Saloon here in Atlanta.  Serious southern rock ‘n’ roll.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Janis was from Port Arthur,a town about 90 miles south of my position.
THey have a nice little “museum” there for her.

The Moonshadow!!! Gawd I miss that place.

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Personally, I thought Big Brother was pretty bad, but her last two bands(Full Tilt and Kosmic Blues) were tremendous.  I was at the Atlanta Pop Festival in ‘69, and she absolutely stole show, and deservedly so.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

Heres one for you, Bravo1. We were blowing off work on a Thursday afternoon, rolled into Manuel’s on North St. for their lunch crap special, and some dude comes in and sits at the piano on the stage and starts playing. He was pretty good and we sent him a drink. It was Greg Allman. We were there till midnight, and never spent a dime. Drank, played pool, listened him and some other guys jam. It was happenin’, brother.

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As a lil girl, I remember roller skating at the rink to Mercedes Benz.
For some odd reason I never appreciated Joplin’s talent until I was much older and I have all her albums (yes, vinyls) and enjoy listening to her frequently